Here are a few thoughts I had about how I saw the relationship between faith and scholarship in my own case, in the hope they will be of interest.

My Catholicism is integral to my scholarship, feeding into (a) its motivation, (b) the sources I turn to, (c) the nourishment I seek, (d) as a principal point of reference, (e) the topics I attend to, (f) and a key audience I want to reach.

The academic disciplines have a derived or relative autonomy from theological/religious authority/concerns, as do their practitioners/exponents.

There is a need for balance between the institutional, the intellectual and the spiritual (Friedrich von Hugel and John Henry Newman).

There is a need for balance between the multiple organs of the magisterium in the church (parents, pastors, scholars/theologians, bishops, papacy).

In recent years there has been a serious (and damaging) dysfunction in the ecclesial community regarding communication between these magisteria and a disconnect between the hierarchy and the sensus fidelium.